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- <sect1 id="Thieves"><!--<sect1info>
- <copyright>
- <year>1999</year>
- <holder>Robert Brady</holder>
- </copyright>
- <author>
- <firstname>Robert</firstname>
- <surname>Brady</surname>
- </author>
- <address>
- <email>rwb197@ecs.soton.ac.uk</email>
- </address>
- </sect1info>-->
-
- <title>Thieves</title>
-
- <para>Written by Robert Brady</para>
-
- <sect2><title>Setup</title>
-
-
- <informaltable>
- <tgroup cols="2">
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>Type of Deck</entry>
- <entry>Joker Deck</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Tableau</entry>
- <entry>
- Seven piles of five cards each, face up.
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Stock</entry>
- <entry>
- Place all remaining cards here. Cards are turned over one
- at a time to Waste. No redeals.
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Waste</entry>
- <entry>
- To be taken from Stock. Top card available for play.
- </entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </informaltable>
-
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Goal</title>
-
- <para>
- Move all cards to Waste.
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Rules</title>
-
- <para>
- The Waste can be built up or down from the available cards on the
- Tableau. Jokers are wild and can be played on any rank as well as
- be played upon by a card of any rank.
- </para>
- <para>
- At any point, a card can be dealt from the Stock to the Waste.
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Scoring</title>
-
- <para>
- The following table shows the points you receive for each type of card.
- No points are scored for jokers.
- </para>
- <informaltable>
- <tgroup cols="2">
- <thead>
- <row>
- <entry>Card</entry>
- <entry>Points</entry>
- </row>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>Ace</entry>
- <entry>8</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>2, 3</entry>
- <entry>6</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>4, 5</entry>
- <entry>4</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>6, 7, 8</entry>
- <entry>2</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>9, 10</entry>
- <entry>4</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Queen</entry>
- <entry>6</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>King</entry>
- <entry>8</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </informaltable>
- </sect2>
- <sect2><title>Strategy</title>
-
- <para>
- Since you can see all the cards on the Tableau, try to engineer
- `runs', to try and get rid of as many cards up there as possible, as
- you only have a finite supply of cards in Stock.
- </para>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
-